Multiple Personality Disorder Day

It’s end of March/beginning of April week, and I feel like a house divided today–too many projects going on, too many things to be excited about.

For one thing, we’re on the brink of National Poetry Month which is just about my favorite month of all months: a whole thirty days of thinking about and celebrating poems on a national level. Pretty great stuff. As part of this, I’m going to be doing some blog appearances in the coming weeks about After the Kiss (and maybe even have a surprise video to post), and also concentrating on poetry themes here in my own blog.

But at the same time, April begins the countdown for the release of The Summer of Firsts and Lasts, my sisterhood/summer camp novel, which officially hits shelves on May 2nd. Reviews are coming in, interviews are being set up, a launch party is being planned, my website is being rearranged . . . it’s all very exciting!

I’ve also been thinking a lot about John Hughes films lately, and sort of wanted to post about that too. Because I personally can never really pin down a favorite. I’ll think, “For sure, ‘Pretty and Pink’ is the best one,” and then I’ll remember some scene from “Breakfast Club” or “Some Kind of Wonderful,” and I’ll be all like, “Oh no that one was the best.” It makes me wonder too what today’s equivalent of a John Hughes film is, too. I mean, “Avatar”? The closest I could come was “Juno,” but that isn’t satisfying either. So I’ll send a copy of After the Kiss to whomever leaves a comment nailing the best contemporary (meaning 2005-2011) John Hughes-style film.

In the meantime, here’s the playlist of Songs In My Head Upon Waking for the last week, in chronological order:

“Gloria in Excelsis,” (Gloria in D Major RV 589) by Vivaldi
“Heat of the Moment,” by Asia
“Lightness,” by Death Cab for Cutie
“Teenage Gay,” by DJs from Mars (mashup of “Enola Gay,” by OMD and “Teenage Dream,” by Katy Perry)
“Animal Authentic,” by Junsi
“All Things Go,” by Sufjan Stevens
“Brilliant Mind,” by Furniture